Kuwakuni, Kyoto.

Shiota Sake Shop is an inconspicuous tavern in Kyoto City, the owner of the tavern is an old man, he did not remarry after losing his wife, and his children died in the war, that was many years ago, and the business of the tavern is also average, not good or depressed, just like most of the people in Kyoto City, can live, no wealth.

Although the national strength gradually recovered after the unification of the Sang State, the scars caused by the continuous years of war could not be so easily repaired, not to mention that the Sang Kingdom did its best to build a sailor, and the treasury was almost empty, not to mention the money bags in the hands of the people.

Fortunately, the wine brewed by Yantian Wine Shop tastes good, so there are regular customers to take care of it.

The old man's name is Yantian, he is old, and he is really unable to run a wine shop, so a few months ago, he recruited a guy to help, it was a woman, she looked like she was in her thirties, very capable and pragmatic, and the most important thing was that she was quiet enough, and Yantian liked to be quiet.

She never talks much, every day she cleans the storefront, every table is spotless, the floor can be wiped almost to reflect the figure, one day Yantian fell ill, she made some meals for Yantian to eat, Yantian found that the taste was good, so she handed over the cooking to her.

Since she started cooking, the business of the liquor store has been better than before, and the old customers have bought the wine and left, and Shiotan recommends new dishes to them, and after tasting them, more and more people stay in the restaurant to eat.

So Yantian also gave this female fellow a salary increase, and she didn't seem to have much joy, neither of them talked much, he never asked her where she came from, and she never took the initiative to mention it.

Until......

The Empress of Sang was killed, and the assassins of the Empress were said to be the Ningren, who disguised themselves as powerless merchants and hacked the Empress to death with a sword.

Three days later, the general Takaihara announced that he was the new emperor of Kuang, and his army of sailors besieged Kyoto with more than 100,000 people.

Takaihara ordered all the Ninjin assassins to be killed, and then hung their bodies in a square in the middle of the city, leaving them to be exposed to the wind and the sun.

That day, the female man was silent for a long time after hearing the news, and on the surface it seemed to be no different from the quiet in the past, but an old man like Shiota saw people very clearly, and he saw the difference in silence, so he knew that her origin must be unusual.

"You're also a Ningren, right?"

Shiota held a cup of tea in front of the female partner: "I can see that there is sadness in your eyes, do you know all those assassins?" ”

"I don't know."

The female guy shook her head: "But I have the same place as them. ”

She didn't deny it, because she knew that denial was useless at this time, but it might make Yantian more suspicious, and there would be resistance.

For the first time, she was willing to talk, so Shiota sat down in front of her and pushed the hot tea forward: "Nuan Nuan." ”

The female guy put her hands around the hot tea cup, looked down at the cup and was silent for a long time, the heat from the teacup came out and wet her eyes.

"I am a Ning person, just like them, because I made a mistake and had to flee from Ning Country, I heard from the guests that those Ning people were the subordinates of a Guo Gong of Ning State, and Guo Gong was sentenced for a serious crime, and they fled here."

She let out a long breath: "They may just want to survive, but they have no choice when they fall into the hands of Takaihara." ”

Yan Tian sighed and said, "Those who can call the shots have always preached the hatred between Ning Guo and Sang Guo, in fact, what kind of hatred can the people have with Sang Guo?" I also heard that it was Ning Guo who had been preparing to invade Sang State, and Sang Country had to start building a sailor in order to protect himself. ”

He shook his head: "I don't know who to trust. ”

He looked at the female guy: "I'm a San person, you are a Ning person, I don't ask why you are in Kyoto, but I think there must be some poor experience, otherwise who would want to leave their hometown to such a far place, I haven't asked, just because I am afraid that you will explain it embarrassingly, and you have not said it because you also care about my feelings, so I know that you are a good person." ”

Yantian leaned on the table and slowly got up: "It's almost noon, there will be guests coming to the door in a while, if you are not in a good state today, you can go and rest, I can handle it alone, I will tell the guests that you are sick today." ”

The female guy shook her head: "I'm fine." ”

Yantian snorted, he was indeed very old, he should have been in his seventies, he walked a little shaky, and when he was about to walk to the counter, he looked back at the female guy: "In the future, no matter how familiar the guests are, if you ask where you are from, you must not tell them that you are Ningren, you look at the people outside...... When they heard that the Ning people had killed the queen, they were all crazy, and they were all clamoring to go to Pingning, and the teenage children were all going to join the army. ”

After a pause, he continued: "Takaihara is very smart, he used you Ning people to kill the queen, and then used this to convince those nobles, all the nobles are willing to go to war with Ning Guo, but they need a better excuse, and now this excuse is available." ”

"If you tell them you're Ning, they'll turn into demons and monsters, and they'll tear you to pieces."

"Thank you."

The female guy stood up and thanked him.

"You're welcome."

Yantian shook his head: "I am old, I have experienced a lot of partings, my children died in the war, and then I and my wife struggled to unification of the Sang Kingdom, thinking that there would be a good life in the future, on the first day of the opening of Yantian Restaurant, my wife was beaten to death by a group of scoundrels, and my leg was broken...... If you are afraid, you can leave Kyoto, leave Kuwa, and live better than die. ”

The female guy shook her head: "I still have something to do." ”

She walked to the back kitchen: "There are a lot of things I need to do, such as a new menu for today's lunch." ”

Shiota smiled and nodded, "It's hard work." ”

There were not many guests at noon, and after less than an hour of busyness, the wine shop returned to a quiet state, and the female man took off her apron and said that she wanted to rest, Shiota nodded: "You go, you try not to come to the front to greet guests in the future." ”

The female guy was stunned for a moment, and then hummed: "Okay." ”

She left the liquor store, and Shiota looked a little pained, he didn't know if he was doing the right thing.

The female man walked down the street, probably less than a mile away from her residence, Shiota said that she could live in a liquor store, but she disagreed, and rented a house, the landlord was an old woman who lived alone, her husband also died in the war, the rent was very cheap, probably just to find someone to live here, that would be more lively.

After returning to the room, the female man opened the floor, took out a box from under the floor, changed into the clothes in the box and jumped out of the back window, she already looked like a noble lady of Sang Country, there was a small sedan chair unique to Sang Country parked in the back street, she immediately entered and closed the door of the sedan chair.

A moment later, the sedan chair stopped at the door of a famous trading house in Kyoto City, and she used a folding fan to cover her face and entered the trading house, and was not long led by the men to the backyard of the trading house.

There was a tree in the yard that was not too tall, and he stood under it waiting for her.

"You shouldn't come to Kyoto, it's too dangerous."

She said.

The young man standing under the tree turned his head, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and his smile was as clean as ever, as confident as ever.

"I'm not afraid of danger, I'm afraid that I can only see you once a month and give up the opportunity."

He walked up to her and reached out to take her hand: "Kyoto will be in danger recently, Takaihara used this method to provoke the hatred of the people of Sang Province against Daning, indicating that they are ready for war. ”

"Gu Le."

She looked into Gu Le's eyes: "So you shouldn't come, I have a reasonable identity to cover up, you don't." ”

"Fool."

Gu Le raised his hand and pinched Geng Shan's face: "I am now the proprietor behind the most famous trading house in Kyoto, this identity is not reasonable enough?" ”

He took Geng Shan's hand back to the house, pressed Geng Shan's shoulder and asked her to sit down, he took the gift he brought and put it in front of Geng Shan: "I asked them to help bring it when our people returned to Daning last time, and finally waited, you said that what you miss the most is the dim sum of Yufu Ji in Chang'an City." ”

Geng Shan was stunned: "The dim sum will be broken if it is sent across the sea, are you stupid?" Think I'm stupid?"

Gu Le pouted: "I made it myself, how could it be broken." ”

Geng Shan opened the oil paper on the outside of the dim sum, pinched up a piece and tasted it, the taste was exactly the same as Yu Fu Ji's dim sum, so she looked surprised: "How did you do it." ”

"I asked someone to go back and ask the tea master if he had any way to find the recipe for the Yufu Ji dim sum method, and said that he wanted to eat it, so the tea master sent someone to contact the people with the air ticket number in Chang'an City."

Geng Shan looked surprised: "Yufu Ji actually sold the formula?" What a price we paid. ”

"It's not."

Gu Le said with a smile: "How could they easily sell the formula, that is the magic weapon that Yufu Ji can maintain for so many years, and it was the tea master who made people buy Yufu Ji." ”

Geng Shan opened her mouth: "Huh? ”

Gu Le said: "Ah...... I didn't expect that the tea master said that you want to eat, what is it to buy a shop, and tell her what you want to eat, she will buy it for you one by one, and when you go back to Chang'an, these shops will eat as you like. ”

He sighed: "Tea master is better than me to flirt with my sister, how is this good, women are better at flirting with women than men...... It doesn't make sense. ”

Geng Shan smiled and handed Gu Le a piece of dim sum: "You can eat it too." ”

"It's all for you, I'll make it for you next time, you can eat it."

"You don't eat? Well, then I won't eat it anymore. ”

"I eat, I eat."

Gu Le hurriedly took the snack and stuffed it into his mouth, and his cheeks immediately bulged, looking like a squirrel with a mouthful of fruit.

"Gotta find a way to get our corpses out."

Geng Shan looked at Gu Le: "Even if they escaped from Daning, they still firmly believed that this was the work of Daning before they died, so they ...... Even if we were ordered to find these people and kill them if they resisted, this is no longer the case....... They are still Ning people, and they are Ning people when they die. ”

"Hmm."

Gu Le nodded: "I'm here to find a way, I came this time because I want to discuss this matter with you, their corpses, they can't be insulted by the San people." ”